OSM Can-BICS is a national bicycling infrastructure network dataset based on a classification of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data using Can-BICS comfort classes and infrastructure categories as consistent criteria and data acquired on January 25, 2022.
Can-BICS is a three-tiered classification of five infrastructure types developed to synthesize language used in Canadian open data, engineering design guides, and recent active transportation research.
File: Can_BICS_pop_centres_csds.shp
Projection: NAD83 / Statistics Canada Lambert
Field definitions:
More details are available on ArcGIS Online.
The Building for Cycling in Canadian Cities study encompasses all medium or large Canada Census Population Centres (population greater than or equal to 30,000). OSM Can-BICS was extracted for all Canada Census Subdivisions that intersect medium or large Canada Census Population Centres (population greater than or equal to 30,000).
All digital boundary files were sourced from Statistics Canada.
The data were extracted for CSDs because it is easier to obtain census data for CSDs than for Population Centres and CSDs represent municipalities, which are practical units for study and outreach.
Figure 1. An example of the spatial relationships that define the study extent. We selected all CSDs intersecting one or more medium or large Population Centres. Population Centres are shown in dark grey, CMAs are shown with similar fill colours, and CSDs are shown as the lines within the CMAs. The selected OSM Can-BICS features are shown in red.
Population Centres are places with population densities of at least 400 people / km2.
Population centres are classified into three groups based on population:
This study encompasses all medium and large population centres (n = 89).
The goal is to extract Can-BICS for Census Subdivisions (CSDs) covering the population centres. CSDs are linked to population centres via the larger Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations (CMA’s); however CMAs include large areas that do not directly intersect the population centres.
This study encompasses n = 73 CMAs containing one or more population centres and n = 319 CSDs intersecting one or more population centres.
Files: * csds_2016_selected.shp * csds_2016_selected.csv
Description: CSDs that intersect medium and large population centres. Original data from Statistics Canada, 2016 Census Geography digital boundary file. See Statistics Canada for field descriptions. Population and journey to work mode share from censusmapper.ca.